Kateb al Shammary
Encyclopedia
Kateb al Shammary is a Saudi Arabia
n lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in Camp Delta
in the American
naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
.
One of his clients is Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry
, who was just 15 years old when captured.
Al Shammary has called on the United States to allow the detainees to face a fair trial:
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
n lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in Camp Delta
Camp Delta
Camp Delta is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root...
in the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
.
One of his clients is Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry
Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry
Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 14, 1984, in...
, who was just 15 years old when captured.
Al Shammary has called on the United States to allow the detainees to face a fair trial:
- “As the United States wants its prisoners in Iraq to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions, we also demand and expect that our prisoners (at Guantanamo Bay) would receive similar treatment,”
External links
- US urged to grant right of defence to prisoners
- Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Marriage, Arab NewsArab NewsArab News is an English-language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia, in the cities of Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam. The Editor-in-Chief is Khaled Al-Maeena. The publisher of Arab News is Saudi Research & Publishing Company , a subsidiary of Saudi Research & Marketing Group .Arab News was...
, May 5, 2005